S905/MXQ Pro - disable internal wifi

giaur509 · January 9, 2019 at 7:22 AM

Hi,

I found internal wifi to be unstable and low transfers. I use usb wifi dongle instead and it works without any problems. However, now I 'm getting 2 interfaces: wlan0 and wlan1 and I'm always confused which one is internal wifi (they even keep swapping sometimes).

Any way to completly disable/blacklist internal wifi kernel module?

bubblegum57 · January 9, 2019 at 2:25 PM

try setting a fixed ip address for the one you want.

giaur509 · January 10, 2019 at 7:00 AM

I want completly disable internal wifi. As it's linux, this could be done eaisly by blacklisting kernel module, but I'm not sure how to indetify which module is it and how to blacklist, because corresponding configuration should be in /etc/modprobe.d.

**chewitt** · January 10, 2019 at 11:36 AM Official Post

"lsmod" will list the active kernel modules

giaur509 · January 10, 2019 at 12:34 PM

I know, but since I'm not sure what hardware is there, their names tell me nothing. And commands like lspci ethtool are not available

**chewitt** · January 10, 2019 at 1:27 PM Official Post

Well.. even if you don't know what's there, the module list would mean something to other people.

giaur509 · January 10, 2019 at 5:15 PM

Quote from chewitt

Well.. even if you don't know what's there, the module list would mean something to other people.

Ethtool is there. For built in wifi card:

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driver: SSV WLAN driver                                                  version: 3.14.29                                                         firmware-version: N/A
expansion-rom-version: 
bus-info: ssv6200
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: nodriver: SSV WLAN driver                                                  version: 3.14.29                                                         firmware-version: N/A
expansion-rom-version: 
bus-info: ssv6200
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no

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So, to disable:

Code

rmmod ssv6051

I guess there is blacklist in /storage/config

**chewitt** · January 11, 2019 at 7:48 AM Official Post

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echo "blacklist ssv6051" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
reboot

^ should do it - and that driver is a complete POS, it should be removed (and it will be in the mainline kernel switch).

giaur509 · January 11, 2019 at 8:36 AM

Quote from chewitt
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echo "blacklist ssv6051" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
reboot
^ should do it - and that driver is a complete POS, it should be removed (and it will be in the mainline kernel switch).

Afaik internal wifi is the same unstable on original Android firmware on this box. So I am not suspected. From other side, better than nothing.